Tag: hosting

301 Redirects with .htaccess

Post author By Greg Rickaby
Post date May 21, 2013
3 Comments on 301 Redirects with .htaccess

After I dumped my database and blew up my site, I wanted to resurrect my most popular content. I needed to setup 301 redirects so both users and Google could find my (old) content in its (new) location.

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Personal

[Safely] Update an Ubuntu EC2 instance on Amazon AWS

Post author By Greg Rickaby
Post date May 19, 2013
1 Comment on [Safely] Update an Ubuntu EC2 instance on Amazon AWS

Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS was released and that meant it was time to upgrade my Ubuntu EC2 instances from 11.10 to 12.04.1 LTS.

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Code

How To: Install LAMP on Ubuntu

Post author By Greg Rickaby
Post date May 19, 2013
16 Comments on How To: Install LAMP on Ubuntu

My brother called to talk about moving his company’s web development and testing environment in-house. They had already downloaded Ubuntu, but didn’t know how to get Apache, MySQL, or PHP installed. I sent him one command and 5 minutes later, they had a fully functional LAMP stack running.